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April 28, 2024
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Author, Psychic and UFO Researcher Philip Kinsella Reveals Incredible and Frightening UFO Abductions on The Paracast!
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This Week's Episode: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a return visit from Philip Kinsella, author of several UFO and spiritual books who has written countless articles surrounding UFOs, consciousness and the afterlife. He began his investigations after an alien abduction he’d experienced back in the winter of 1989 and has spent the rest of his years exploring alternate theories surrounding both UFOs and alien contact, as well as psychic phenomena. In 1996, he published an article in Alien Encounters magazine, which had been considered within its theoretical application, entitled "Spirits in a Material World," which created some controversy with regards to his theoretical assumptions surrounding what a certain faction of the Greys may represent. Philip has lectured on the subject and has appeared on national television. He also co-hosts a radio program ran by the Paranormal UK Radio Network called "Twin Souls." In this episode, Philip discusses one of his books, "Terrestrial Trespassers." It covers such topics as: What are the Greys? Why are they here, and furthermore, what are their intentions? Why is it that after decades of alien abduction and UFO research we are no nearer in truly establishing what we may be up against regarding this omnipresent force which seemingly operates beyond our level of reality and hides within the shadows like phantoms in the night? Philip takes a candid look at the phenomenon, along with other areas of high strangeness in his search for the clues which may answer some truly extraordinary claims.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on April 28: Philip Kinsella, author of "Terrestrial Trespassers," returns to talk with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about possible sources for UFO abductions and related episodes. What about missing time during such encounters, where someone returns (or recovers) from such an experience and discovers that additional hours, or days, have passed in the outside world? How do popular cultural icons, such as Star Trek and other sci-fi films and TV shows, influence our reality? The discussion also focuses on the various creative influences. And just how and why are the authorities scheming to hide the truth about such phenomena? Philip began his investigations into the strange and the unknown after an alien abduction he’d experienced back in the winter of 1989 and has spent the rest of his years exploring alternate theories surrounding both UFOs and alien contact, as well as psychic phenomena. In 1996, he published an article in "Alien Encounters" which had been considered within its theoretical application, entitled ‘Spirits in a Material World’ and something which had created some controversy with regards to his theoretical assumptions surrounding what a certain faction of the Greys may represent. Philip has also lectured on the subject and has appeared on national television. Philip also co-hosts a radio program ran by the Paranormal UK Radio Network called "Twin Souls."
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AARO is Useless
By Gene Steinberg
Forgive me (or not), but any time I hear or read the acronym for the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), I wonder who devised that lame-brained name. All-domain indeed!
The AARO is the latest in a series of government programs to allegedly investigate UFOs — make that UAP. And that acronym can variously mean Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or, in its latest iteration, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
Perhaps there’s a tad of wisdom behind the latter choice, that not all sightings involve objects (or whatever) being observed in the sky. There are objects that appear to enter oceans too. That’s something, though, that doesn’t seem as sexy as the image of possible extraterrestrials doing their things in our skies.
To be fair, AARO’s alleged mission seems sensible enough: “Our team of experts is leading the U.S. government’s efforts to address Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) using a rigorous scientific framework and a data-driven approach. Since its establishment in July 2022, AARO has taken important steps to improve data collection, standardize reporting requirements, and mitigate the potential threats to safety and security posed by UAP.”
At the same time, AARO and its government-created predecessors all seem stuck in a rut with their conclusions. They state that there is no evidence that UAPs represent possible visits from offworld sources. They are not spaceships, they say; ET is not here.
That conclusion isn’t terribly different from what the U.S. Air Force said in the days after World War II where the phenomenon first hit the public consciousness largely as the result of Kenneth Arnold’s sighting of nine speedy airborne objects on June 24, 1947.
It didn’t help that the press adapted Arnold’s description of the motion of the objects, as saucers skipping across water, and thus called them flying saucers. Indeed, what Arnold saw wasn’t exactly saucer-shaped, and it’s not the most common shape in which UFOs appear.
But even cigar-shaped craft bore the title flying saucers. To be fair, I also called them that, and long referred to myself as someone who investigated the saucer mystery.
In the early days, using the term UFOs was meant to grant the mystery a degree of credibility. Flying saucers? Nah! That’s just something crazy people report. Unidentified Flying Objects? Now that’s the ticket. It sure sounds serious.
Except that it didn’t stop the Air Force’s Project Blue Book from dismissing most sightings as something conventional. Still, hundreds of sightings were labeled unidentified, but the general excuse had it that, if they had more information, they’d be solved. But that was a real contradiction because they already had an insufficient information category.
To be fair, today’s civilian UFO researchers will concede that that the number of truly unidentified sightings is indeed in the single digits, sometimes the low single digits. But that doesn’t mean something strange isn’t happening. Just a handful of compelling sightings of unknown craft would be sufficient to justify the existence of a mystery that cries out for an explanation.
That takes us back to AARO. It is only the latest of the recent Pentagon UAP projects. It all began in the early part of the century when a chintzy $22 million was budgeted for a study. The funds were funneled to one Robert Bigelow, a billionaire hotel magnate and paranormal enthusiast who has also funded conservative political causes, including presidential candidates.
In any case, it didn’t produce anything new. But it’s not that there weren’t influences from Bigelow’s work. So UAP research projects funded by Congress mentioned something referred to as “human effects.”
Those words are largely defined as referring to the so-called hitchhiker effect, in which people who see UFOs are sometimes followed by a strange phenomenon that manifests itself in sometimes frightening ways, such as possible poltergeist activity in their homes.
Without mentioning names, I recall some conversations with a young UFO researcher back in the late 1960s. He told me of just such an episode involving him and his then-girlfriend that occurred repeatedly after a sighting.
It was fair to say that UFOs are sometimes dangerous to one’s health. And I’m not just referring to injuries received by people who just get too close to one, such as in the 1980 Cash-Landrum episode in Texas.
But it doesn’t seem as if AARO and the other Pentagon musical chair projects have let such episodes influence them. It’s always the same thing, with the same conclusions.
Now to be fair to AARO, setting down criteria to receive and evaluate UAP reports is important in being able to investigate sightings in an organized way. Maybe that approach will deliver more significant data than the existing catch-as-catch-can methods that have long failed.
If conspiracies are on your mind, it is fair to say that the various government programs may not so much be about solving the UAP mystery, but on modifying the public. “See folks, we’re on the case. Nothing to worry about.”
And it’s not as if these project don’t make public presentations. There have been hearings in the U.S. Congress, though AARO spokespeople — and their predecessors — are never asked the hard questions.
What, for example, do they mean about the lack of evidence for an ET origin for UAPs? Does it require a captured spaceship or a member of its crew? Wouldn’t sightings of apparently physical aircraft displaying extraordinary maneuvers be sufficient to demonstrate that we are witnessing phenomena that cannot be explained by conventional means?
I realize that the lack of a conventional explanation doesn’t necessarily demonstrate that the explanation is unconventional. There may be things going on that we do not fully understand, and would represent a solution other than extraterrestrial.
But that doesn’t resolve the enigma of UFOs. There are still too many compelling sightings we have yet to understand. It may just be that the presence of unknown aerial phenomena is meant to make us think about humanity’s future, to embrace the amazing possibilities of a greatly expanded space program. To become a spacefaring race.
But whatever the answer, if past is prologue, it’s very clear to me that AARO isn’t going to solve anything. The same will hold true when or if another UAP project takes over with little or no fanfare.
Useless? Sure.
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April 28, 2024
www.theparacast.com
Author, Psychic and UFO Researcher Philip Kinsella Reveals Incredible and Frightening UFO Abductions on The Paracast!
The Paracast is heard Sundays on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, the IRN Internet Radio Network, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming on your favorite podcast app.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED UP FOR THE PARACAST+ YET? PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PARACAST+ SO YOU CAN SUPPORT THE SHOW AND ENJOY THE ULTIMATE PARACAST EXPERIENCE AT A SPECIAL LOW PRICE! We have another radio show and we’d love for you listen to it. So for a low subscription fee, you will receive access to an exclusive bonus podcast, After The Paracast, plus an enhanced version of The Paracast with all the ads removed, when you join The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes on your device. Flash! Take advantage of our lowest rates ever! Act now! It's easier than ever to susbcribe! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a return visit from Philip Kinsella, author of several UFO and spiritual books who has written countless articles surrounding UFOs, consciousness and the afterlife. He began his investigations after an alien abduction he’d experienced back in the winter of 1989 and has spent the rest of his years exploring alternate theories surrounding both UFOs and alien contact, as well as psychic phenomena. In 1996, he published an article in Alien Encounters magazine, which had been considered within its theoretical application, entitled "Spirits in a Material World," which created some controversy with regards to his theoretical assumptions surrounding what a certain faction of the Greys may represent. Philip has lectured on the subject and has appeared on national television. He also co-hosts a radio program ran by the Paranormal UK Radio Network called "Twin Souls." In this episode, Philip discusses one of his books, "Terrestrial Trespassers." It covers such topics as: What are the Greys? Why are they here, and furthermore, what are their intentions? Why is it that after decades of alien abduction and UFO research we are no nearer in truly establishing what we may be up against regarding this omnipresent force which seemingly operates beyond our level of reality and hides within the shadows like phantoms in the night? Philip takes a candid look at the phenomenon, along with other areas of high strangeness in his search for the clues which may answer some truly extraordinary claims.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on April 28: Philip Kinsella, author of "Terrestrial Trespassers," returns to talk with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about possible sources for UFO abductions and related episodes. What about missing time during such encounters, where someone returns (or recovers) from such an experience and discovers that additional hours, or days, have passed in the outside world? How do popular cultural icons, such as Star Trek and other sci-fi films and TV shows, influence our reality? The discussion also focuses on the various creative influences. And just how and why are the authorities scheming to hide the truth about such phenomena? Philip began his investigations into the strange and the unknown after an alien abduction he’d experienced back in the winter of 1989 and has spent the rest of his years exploring alternate theories surrounding both UFOs and alien contact, as well as psychic phenomena. In 1996, he published an article in "Alien Encounters" which had been considered within its theoretical application, entitled ‘Spirits in a Material World’ and something which had created some controversy with regards to his theoretical assumptions surrounding what a certain faction of the Greys may represent. Philip has also lectured on the subject and has appeared on national television. Philip also co-hosts a radio program ran by the Paranormal UK Radio Network called "Twin Souls."
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop.
AARO is Useless
By Gene Steinberg
Forgive me (or not), but any time I hear or read the acronym for the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), I wonder who devised that lame-brained name. All-domain indeed!
The AARO is the latest in a series of government programs to allegedly investigate UFOs — make that UAP. And that acronym can variously mean Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or, in its latest iteration, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
Perhaps there’s a tad of wisdom behind the latter choice, that not all sightings involve objects (or whatever) being observed in the sky. There are objects that appear to enter oceans too. That’s something, though, that doesn’t seem as sexy as the image of possible extraterrestrials doing their things in our skies.
To be fair, AARO’s alleged mission seems sensible enough: “Our team of experts is leading the U.S. government’s efforts to address Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) using a rigorous scientific framework and a data-driven approach. Since its establishment in July 2022, AARO has taken important steps to improve data collection, standardize reporting requirements, and mitigate the potential threats to safety and security posed by UAP.”
At the same time, AARO and its government-created predecessors all seem stuck in a rut with their conclusions. They state that there is no evidence that UAPs represent possible visits from offworld sources. They are not spaceships, they say; ET is not here.
That conclusion isn’t terribly different from what the U.S. Air Force said in the days after World War II where the phenomenon first hit the public consciousness largely as the result of Kenneth Arnold’s sighting of nine speedy airborne objects on June 24, 1947.
It didn’t help that the press adapted Arnold’s description of the motion of the objects, as saucers skipping across water, and thus called them flying saucers. Indeed, what Arnold saw wasn’t exactly saucer-shaped, and it’s not the most common shape in which UFOs appear.
But even cigar-shaped craft bore the title flying saucers. To be fair, I also called them that, and long referred to myself as someone who investigated the saucer mystery.
In the early days, using the term UFOs was meant to grant the mystery a degree of credibility. Flying saucers? Nah! That’s just something crazy people report. Unidentified Flying Objects? Now that’s the ticket. It sure sounds serious.
Except that it didn’t stop the Air Force’s Project Blue Book from dismissing most sightings as something conventional. Still, hundreds of sightings were labeled unidentified, but the general excuse had it that, if they had more information, they’d be solved. But that was a real contradiction because they already had an insufficient information category.
To be fair, today’s civilian UFO researchers will concede that that the number of truly unidentified sightings is indeed in the single digits, sometimes the low single digits. But that doesn’t mean something strange isn’t happening. Just a handful of compelling sightings of unknown craft would be sufficient to justify the existence of a mystery that cries out for an explanation.
That takes us back to AARO. It is only the latest of the recent Pentagon UAP projects. It all began in the early part of the century when a chintzy $22 million was budgeted for a study. The funds were funneled to one Robert Bigelow, a billionaire hotel magnate and paranormal enthusiast who has also funded conservative political causes, including presidential candidates.
In any case, it didn’t produce anything new. But it’s not that there weren’t influences from Bigelow’s work. So UAP research projects funded by Congress mentioned something referred to as “human effects.”
Those words are largely defined as referring to the so-called hitchhiker effect, in which people who see UFOs are sometimes followed by a strange phenomenon that manifests itself in sometimes frightening ways, such as possible poltergeist activity in their homes.
Without mentioning names, I recall some conversations with a young UFO researcher back in the late 1960s. He told me of just such an episode involving him and his then-girlfriend that occurred repeatedly after a sighting.
It was fair to say that UFOs are sometimes dangerous to one’s health. And I’m not just referring to injuries received by people who just get too close to one, such as in the 1980 Cash-Landrum episode in Texas.
But it doesn’t seem as if AARO and the other Pentagon musical chair projects have let such episodes influence them. It’s always the same thing, with the same conclusions.
Now to be fair to AARO, setting down criteria to receive and evaluate UAP reports is important in being able to investigate sightings in an organized way. Maybe that approach will deliver more significant data than the existing catch-as-catch-can methods that have long failed.
If conspiracies are on your mind, it is fair to say that the various government programs may not so much be about solving the UAP mystery, but on modifying the public. “See folks, we’re on the case. Nothing to worry about.”
And it’s not as if these project don’t make public presentations. There have been hearings in the U.S. Congress, though AARO spokespeople — and their predecessors — are never asked the hard questions.
What, for example, do they mean about the lack of evidence for an ET origin for UAPs? Does it require a captured spaceship or a member of its crew? Wouldn’t sightings of apparently physical aircraft displaying extraordinary maneuvers be sufficient to demonstrate that we are witnessing phenomena that cannot be explained by conventional means?
I realize that the lack of a conventional explanation doesn’t necessarily demonstrate that the explanation is unconventional. There may be things going on that we do not fully understand, and would represent a solution other than extraterrestrial.
But that doesn’t resolve the enigma of UFOs. There are still too many compelling sightings we have yet to understand. It may just be that the presence of unknown aerial phenomena is meant to make us think about humanity’s future, to embrace the amazing possibilities of a greatly expanded space program. To become a spacefaring race.
But whatever the answer, if past is prologue, it’s very clear to me that AARO isn’t going to solve anything. The same will hold true when or if another UAP project takes over with little or no fanfare.
Useless? Sure.
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